The craziest football team photos: Say everyone: Miiiiiiiies
Rarely have there been more smiling faces in a team photo of a professional club than in this one of 1. FC Nuremberg. It's also nice to see the person who caused the Nuremberg laughter laughing at himself.
Iron rule in team sports: someone always has to fall out of line.
Topic: "Strange Hobbies": Penis Search Pictures. Performed here by Sezgin Özhan of VfvB Ruhrort/Laar in 2008. Unfortunately, the photo was printed in the regional press. Result: ten-match suspension.
The mother of all team photo gags: Torsten Legat pulls the jacket up to his armpits. Unfortunately, this didn't go down well with manager Rudi Assauer. Legat later said: "If two colleagues offered me 1,000 marks for this, I'd be stupid not to do it. Unfortunately, I had to pay ten times the fine." Well...
It had to happen: The dab team photo. And yes, modern football sucks.
Why the 1860 Munich team forced a lion cub to pose for their team photo makes sense, at least from a folkloristic perspective. But the reason they posed in front of a foggy prefab building can really only be one: the photographer was a Bayern Munich fan.
Heinz Höher has the reins in his hand, the rest of the Nuremberg troupe poses with their legs apart on the attached beer barrels. Only the Haflinger mare "Betty" just wants to get away. Understandably!
Technical problems: Hertha coach Falko Götz leans against the locomotive like a Golf GTI, Herthinho plays the train conductor, and what kind of Görlitzer Park souvenir bags are Pantelic and Simunic carrying? The onward journey of this ICE train was delayed by several days in 2006.
Sure, you could just rent a photo studio. Or at least put up a large wall with all 2,457 sponsors (Schlachterei Hörger, Faxcafé "Sendebericht," etc.). But you could also pose on the damp street next to the training ground to express the full misery of FC St. Pauli in 1976. Mission accomplished.
Sunday driver: Due to a chain of unfortunate circumstances, a pensioner parked right in the middle of Eintracht Braunschweig's squad in 1988. The jogging suit wearer (right) was not injured.
Only for buses: "In Paderborn, it rains, or the bells ring," as the saying goes. When it finally dried up in 2010, the SC hastily set up camp in the FuZo. But then...
A guard of honor for no one: The old town is deserted in the summer of 1988, and the Hannover 96 squad waits sadly for passersby. The latter could be the reason for the former.
Let's fast-forward to the modern era: Today, we've learned from the mistakes of the past. Not a hair is out of place, and no grin is put in the wrong light. Bayern defenders Dante and Jerome Boateng even go a step further, expertly tugging at their own shirts. The reason...
...the six-pack that had flabby a bit during the summer vacation is now in shape. We give them both a yellow card as a precaution and, in the meantime, sadly continue to watch our own bodies deteriorate. No amount of tweezing will help.
We don't know if goalkeeper Jérémie Janot of AS Saint-Étienne has a problem with his appearance. Or if he's out hunting criminals at night in the small French town. We also don't know how the good man managed to sneak this outfit past the referees. But we thank him for this team photo.
Fabien Barthez, Ryan Giggs, Jaap Stam, Paul Scholes – When you look at this Manchester United team photo, you see many familiar faces. Only the friendly gentleman on the far left caused some surprise. No wonder, since Karl Power had sneaked in among the squad just before kickoff and thus got his well-deserved 15 minutes of fame.
It's shocking: Even people with perfect bodies and even more perfect lives resort to making themselves look bigger in standard team photos. A current example: Cristiano Ronaldo makes himself (even) bigger than he is.
The undisputed winner of this photo series (1st prize: an old disposable camera, full) is this youth team, which is unfortunately unknown to us.
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